http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog Web Design Blog Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:04:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you one of the 100,000 web-savvy people who watch the excellent website optimization videos created by Stompernet, the web optimization training membership site? Have you found, like I have, that the http filename link for downloading the videos for future viewing is not apparent even in the source code ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/stompernet-going-natural-social-marketing-video-save-link-as-link.htm Shiver me timbers!...Facebook slips adware-malware into your mobile when you choose to download the Facebook application onto your Blackberry via the T-Mobile mobile service in the US.Of course Facebook and T-Mobile swear that they will not use any personal information gathered from the user's Facebook contacts address book on the ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/beware-the-facebook-mobile-icon.htm The FCC announced the list of bidders to the imminent 700 MHz spectrum auction yesterday. Only 96 Of the 266 applications submitted were accepted, and another 170 were deemed incomplete (but these will be given a chance to submit updated applications). You can download both lists, along with the ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/the-700-mhz-contenders-are.htm Intuit, the small business finance software producers, will offer Quicken for iPhone users at $3 a month on January 8 2008. Quicken helps users track where and how their money is deployed.This new offering is tailored to  younger mobile users.Says Intuit senior vice president Rick Jensen, “Our first mission is ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/intuit-on-your-mobile.htm In continuation of our earlier post on the subject: Twitter says that the T-Mobile blockade was not in actuality put in place by T-Mobile, but was a tech issue between Ericsson, who serve Twitter's SMS,and T-Mobile.Then why did T-Mobile write to subscribers explicitly stating that it was blocking Twitter??My suspicion ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/sex-lies-and-t-mobile.htm I've already chronicled how some carrier networks have assumed the right to censor your surfing. T-Mobile recently joined this infamous bandwagon. If you tried to Twitter on T-Mobile, you were met with the message: " ...Twitter is not an authorized third-party service provider... ". And if you got ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/t-mobile-fought-with-twitter-made-up-with-twitter-2.htm If you're a Sprint-Nextel subscriber, soon you'll be able to access MySpace without any extra charges (provided you have a data plan). If you go to Sprint's portal you'll find a link to MySpace on it... saves you the trouble of typing the MySpace URL into your mobile's browser ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/sprint-to-myspace-for-free-almost.htm Do you practice safe downloading? I mean into your iPhone... because according to Arbor Networks, a noted security research firm, hacking your iPhone is easy as pie, and will be the equivalent of bowling for the hacker community (providing them much amusement on Friday nights).The viruses will slip into ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/beware-of-attacks-on-your-iphone-in-2008.htm Did you know that some carriers actually do that? For instance, Verizon Wireless, perhaps temporarily under the delusion that they were God, blocked text messages from pro-abortion group Naral ProChoice bound for its subscribers.Eight consumer and public interest groups have filed a petition with the FCC seeking to block carriers ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/your-mobile-carrier-might-be-filtering-your-text-messages.htm Let me guess... you wouldn't like it at all? Look at how I guessed that one.Piotr Staniaszek didn't like it either. Only trouble is, he actually got one!The poor dude, who worked in desolate oilfields as a well tester,  had a C$10 unlimited browser plan for his mobile phone. This ... http://web-design.themagnumgroup.net/blog/how-would-you-like-an-85000-cellphone-bill.htm